Vilet Lester writing to find her mother and family
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Georgia Bullock Co. August 29, 1857
My loving Miss Patsy I hav long bin wishing to imbrace this presant and pleasant opportunity of unfolding my Seans and fealings Since I was constrained to leav my Long Loved home and friends which I cannot never gave my Self the Least promise of returning to I am well and Injoying good hlth and has ever Since I Left Randolph whend I Left Randolph I went to Rockingham and Stad there five weaks and then I left there and went to Richmon virginia to be Sold and I Stade there three days and was bought by a man by the name of Groover and braught to Georgia and he kept me about Nine months and he being a trader Sold me to a man by the Name of Rimes and he Sold me to a man by the Name of Lester and he has owned me four years and Says that he will keep me til death Siperate us without. Some of my old north Caroliner friends wants to buy me again my Dear Mistress I cannot tell my fealings nor how bad I wish to See you and old Boss and Miss Rahol and Mother I do not [k]now which I want to See the worst Miss Rahol or mother I have thaugh that I wanted to See mother but never befour did I no what it was to want to See a parent and could not I wish you to gave my love to old Boss Miss Rahol and bailum and gave my manafold love to mother brothers and Sister and pleas to tell them to Right to me So I may here
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from them if I cannot See them and also I wish to right to me and Right me all the nuse I do want to now whether old Boss is Still Living or now and all the rest of them and I want to now whether is married or no I wish to now what has Ever become of my Presus little girl I left her in goldsborough with Mr Walker and I have not herd from her Since and Walker Said that he was going to Carry her to Rockingham and gave her to his Sister and I want to no whether he did or no as I do wish to See her very mutch and Boss says he wishes to now whether he will Sell her or now and the least that can buy her and that he wishes a answer as Soon as he can get one as I wis him to buy her and my Boss being a man of Reason and fealing wishes to grant my troubled breast that mutch gratification and wishes to now whether he will Sell her now So I must come to close by Escribing my Self yours long loved and wishing play mate as a a Servant until death Vilet Lester
of Georgia
To Miss Patsey Padison
of north Caroliner
My Bosses Name is James B Lester and if you Should think a nuff of me to right me which I do beg the faver of you as a Servant direct your leter to Millray Bullock County Georgia Pleas to right me So fare fare you well in love
Georgia Bullock Co. August 29, 1857
My loving Miss Patsy I hav long bin wishing to imbrace this presant and pleasant opportunity of unfolding my Seans and fealings Since I was constrained to leav my Long Loved home and friends which I cannot never gave my Self the Least promise of returning to I am well and Injoying good hlth and has ever Since I Left Randolph whend I Left Randolph I went to Rockingham and Stad there five weaks and then I left there and went to Richmon virginia to be Sold and I Stade there three days and was bought by a man by the name of Groover and braught to Georgia and he kept me about Nine months and he being a trader Sold me to a man by the Name of Rimes and he Sold me to a man by the Name of Lester and he has owned me four years and Says that he will keep me til death Siperate us without. Some of my old north Caroliner friends wants to buy me again my Dear Mistress I cannot tell my fealings nor how bad I wish to See you and old Boss and Miss Rahol and Mother I do not [k]now which I want to See the worst Miss Rahol or mother I have thaugh that I wanted to See mother but never befour did I no what it was to want to See a parent and could not I wish you to gave my love to old Boss Miss Rahol and bailum and gave my manafold love to mother brothers and Sister and pleas to tell them to Right to me So I may here
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from them if I cannot See them and also I wish to right to me and Right me all the nuse I do want to now whether old Boss is Still Living or now and all the rest of them and I want to now whether is married or no I wish to now what has Ever become of my Presus little girl I left her in goldsborough with Mr Walker and I have not herd from her Since and Walker Said that he was going to Carry her to Rockingham and gave her to his Sister and I want to no whether he did or no as I do wish to See her very mutch and Boss says he wishes to now whether he will Sell her or now and the least that can buy her and that he wishes a answer as Soon as he can get one as I wis him to buy her and my Boss being a man of Reason and fealing wishes to grant my troubled breast that mutch gratification and wishes to now whether he will Sell her now So I must come to close by Escribing my Self yours long loved and wishing play mate as a a Servant until death Vilet Lester
of Georgia
To Miss Patsey Padison
of north Caroliner
My Bosses Name is James B Lester and if you Should think a nuff of me to right me which I do beg the faver of you as a Servant direct your leter to Millray Bullock County Georgia Pleas to right me So fare fare you well in love